Word: precepts
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...Love's appearance and personality also helped him upset McNichols. Remarkably handsome in a man's-man way, he became a cracking good extemporaneous speaker, managed to sound persuasive even while remaining a bit vague about his political philosophy-"I'm for the simple but powerful precept of government with the people...
...plastered the state with stickers bearing only one word: "Love." What else? Candidate Love is a corking good stump speaker. Without getting deep into specifics, he announces himself as backing "a voice in the state's business for every citizen. I'm for the simple but powerful precept of government with the people." Like McNichols, Love is a heavily decorated veteran of World War II; he is addicted to one-button blue suits, button-down collars, and 18-hour cam paign days...
...world-is shy, strapping A. P. (for Arnold Peter) Mø11er, who, at 85, still likes to sail himself to work in his sloop Karama III. In his storybook rise from merchant's apprentice, Mø11er (pronounced roughly Mew-lehr) has always believed in one precept besides making money: do something for Denmark. Mostly, what he has done for Denmark is to invest in it. With the profits earned abroad by his 85-ship Maersk Line and his 25,000-acre Tanganyika sugar plantation, he has built his country's biggest industrial empire, which ranges from...
...this precept, Father Hesburgh, 44, is guiding the country's best-known Roman Catholic university, and has become the most influential figure in the reshaping of Catholic higher education in the U.S. A school once known chiefly for a football team is trying to rise above the undistinguished record of U.S. Catholic colleges in general and reach for the renown of the Catholic universities of the Middle Ages...
...Brooklyn brick; to find in the moral slime of a slum episode the ink in which to write Greek tragedy as it was written in the golden age. Inevitably, the attempt fails; but the failure is impressive. The film, perhaps even more vividly than the play, demonstrates the Gnostic precept that when the seven deadly sins are counted, there is still one more. Its name is Ignorance, and it is as quick as any other to send a soul to hell...